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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is focused on cutting the company's massive losses and "getting the love back" after a year of damaging revelations about the ride-hailing service's sometimes heartless treatment of its employees, drivers, regulators and rivals.

"We strive to be and should be a brand that is as beloved as Amazon and Google," Khosrowshahi said late Wednesday during an appearance at a Goldman Sachs technology conference. "We have a long way to go, but we have to re-earn our consumer and driver trust. Just getting the love back is a very important priority for us."

The job is proving to be even more difficult than Khosrowshahi anticipated...

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is focused on cutting the company's massive losses and "getting the love back" after a year of damaging revelations about the ride-hailing service's sometimes heartless treatment of its employees, drivers, regulators and rivals....

A list of nominees in the top categories at the 60th annual Grammy Awards, announced Tuesday by The Recording Academy. — Album of the year: "Awaken, My Love!," Childish Gambino; "4:44," Jay-Z; "DAMN.," Kendrick Lamar; "Melodrama," Lorde; "24K Magic,"...

Jay-Z is the leader of the 2018 Grammy Award nominations in a year where the top four categories are heavily dominated by rap and R&B artists, giving the often overlooked genres a strong chance of winning big.
The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that...

Has sad, sensitive Beck left the building?
It was easy to wonder that last year when the singer put out “Dreams,” an up-tempo guitar-pop tune, only months after his lush bummer-folk record “Morning Phase” won a Grammy Award for album of the year.
Now...

Just months after Beck's surprising win for album of the year at the Grammys, he's back with a new single and a striking new sonic direction.
The singer-songwriter had earlier hinted at new music, posting artwork for a new song "Dreams" last week. Now...

On a Grammy night heavy on nostalgia and generally lacking in surprise, Beck bested heavily favored artists such as Beyonce and Sam Smith for album of the year.
The 57th annual Grammy Awards gave Beck’s “Morning Phase” its highest accolade Sunday,...

In the opening measures of Björk's new album, "Vulnicura," the Icelandic artist offers a direct statement of purpose, one involving personal upheaval she describes as "a juxtapositioning fate." Mentioning "moments of clarity as so rare, I better...

Every now and then, on the way to her job, Lucy Wainwright Roche calls her dad, who happens to know all the people she works with and the nuances of every building she works in.
"I don't think a lot of people have that connection," she says, "You don't...

Beck has added 10 dates to his 2014 tour, including an April 9 stop at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara ahead of his scheduled performances April 13 and 20 at Coachella. He’ll also be dropping in tonight on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”...

Beck made his name as a recycler, a smart, savvy searcher known for finding new value in old things. So it makes sense that the artist responsible for "Mellow Gold" and "Odelay," both high points of mid-'90s cut-and-paste pop, would eventually get...

3 stars (out of 4) "Morning Phase" Beck It’s rare for a famous singer-songwriter to collaborate with a father on a new album. It’s rarer still for the patriarch to nearly steal the show from his progeny. But that’s what happens on “Morning Phase” (Capitol), Beck’s first studio album in six years....

By the time that Beck Hansen finished his lush, melancholy new record, "Morning Phase," he had become so consumed by the process that he says he'd caused brain damage.
"I've heard each song about six or seven thousand times, to the point where it's...

The demands of promotion and commemoration came together Monday night on "Late Show With David Letterman," where Broken Bells performed a cover of the Beatles' "And I Love Her."
The L.A.-based alt-rock duo (featuring James Mercer of the Shins and...

It’s an idea that's easy to grasp: Justin Vernon onstage in Los Angeles the week before the Grammy Awards.
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Do you like Beck? Do you like vinyl records? Do you like the idea of watching a guy press Beck's latest music onto a vinyl record?
If so, Beck has got the video for you.
The L.A.-based singer and songwriter on Friday posted a clip on his website...

Many, many words had already been written about Lou Reed's influence before the iconic New York rocker died Sunday at the age of 71.
But the death of the former Velvet Underground frontman has of course triggered a fresh wave of testimony, including some...

BARSTOW -- As far as art happenings in the desert go, this stop of Doug Aitken’s cross-country, roving art show was surprisingly, if beautifully, mellow.
At first.
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